In the fast fashion that is Angelbecca, she just got this to me tonight. Chapter 4 as promised and i hope to get more of chapter 5 done. I hope this makes up for the lack of updates and that everyone is still liking this story. Mr. Gold makes an appearance! The italics are codec conversations in case everyone gets confused. Michael is mine but I don't own Full Metal Panic or Metal Gear.


"So far so good." Bel said in the command center of the sub. He was monitoring the broadcasts from the Sgt, Major, and the two Lt.'s.

"However, something is bothering me." Snake said as he watched the monitors with Weber that Sousuke and Michael were broadcasting back to the sub.

"What is it Snake? Do you have some sort of hunch about something?" Tessa asked the Commander standing next to her.

"It is probably nothing, just call it a soldier's paranoid mind." Snake answered curtly to the Captain.

Tessa stood up and walked up to the Colonel, "How are we standing right now Colonel?"

Campbell cleared his throat, "So far no trouble."

"But if there is no trouble now, then you are implying that there will be trouble in the future I presume." Tessa said as she bit her hair.

"Correct Captain," Snake said taking a seat, "Even in FOXHOUND there is no such thing as a perfect op."

Weber turned to face them, "Could it be a possibility that they know we are alive." He suggested.

Everyone was silent while they contemplated that seemingly ridiculous suggestion. Both organizations had been taking extra caution to stay under Amalgam's radar.

So far as they knew they had done nothing to even make Amalgam suspect they were still alive, let alone functioning. They had also been very careful to monitor Amalgam, and so far Amalgam still seemed oblivious to the survival of FOXHOUND and Mithril.

I'm just saying that we know about Leonard and a few things about the inner circle of Amalgam. However," He looked at the screen, "We know nothing about this Mr. Gold."

"For once Weber is right." Snake added, "Mr. Gold is a shadow and for all intents and purposes he could just be a name to an imaginary person, to give the appearance that Amalgam is under his command as a decoy. Other than that, we know nothing about him."

"Snake could it be possible that Mr. Gold is someone similar to Gauron?" Bel asked turning to face the legend. With all this talk about Mr. Gold anything seemed possible about the kind of person he was in real life.

"If he is like Gauron," Mardukas said adjusting his glasses, "Than we can expect the worse case scenario from now on. We could be dealing with someone who is just as dangerous as that man was. And if it is someone like him, than he will attack without hesitation."

Tessa thought for a second. Things were tense right now and both groups needed a win to boost morale. It would also give them the edge when Operation Zeus was officially underway, "Before Operation Zeus, we should focus on figuring out everyone that Amalgam has any sort of contact with."

"Already on it." Otacon said typing away at the computer. The lanky man with glasses would be the last person to be part of FOXHOUND. However, Dr. Emmerich, or Otacon as he liked to be called, was a genius hacker with a knack for getting the right information at the right time. No door or code access was safe from his hacking hands.

"So far we have identified people from Boeing, Lock Heed and Martin and other big name corporations." Otacon typed away, "Those people are nothing more than heads to different projects ranging from airplane aviation to Arm Slave testing."

Emmerich logged the names into the database as more pictures came up. More people were identified working at robotic companies such as Kunami Works and even the biggest corporation known, Canstant Dealers.

Canstant Dealers was the biggest name in Arm Slave development in the world. They were the company that brought the recent developments in the 3rd generation Arm Slaves not dealing with Black Technology.

"This is more alarming." Tessa pointed out to a woman and a man chatting quickly with Sousuke. She pointed at the man, "This is Mr. Deckem he is the head of Rivermore Lab's Computer Division as well as VR testing."

"VR testing?" Otacon looked at her strangely, "You mean like what we have at FOXHOUND?"

Tessa shook her head, "No, instead of fights, this allows simulations for weapons testing. For example, if they wanted to design a fighter to go a certain speed than they can create a simulation to test for that and find the best design for it."

"Virtual building," Campbell clarified, "It can save production costs and testing for engineers."

"Exactly." Tessa bit her hair as she played with it thinking, "This is bad."

Everyone looked at her.

"Rivermore and Armstech were working together on something. We did not know about this joint venture until some time before the attack." She looked at everyone, "Than you have Lock and Head working on a new missile design." Tessa pointed out.

Bel watched the screen, "Let's hope that Lt. Mao and Lt. Mei Ling can find their way into that database, and with lots of luck we can find all the information we need."


The young girl known as Elizabeth Prepon was an exotic woman for any man to see. She was with a date, but that man could not romance a woman if his life depended on it.

The only thing she knew was that this club was very exclusive, and she had big dreams for the future.

Right now she had her eye on the cute bartender in front of her.

She rested her elbows on the bar and leaned forward hoping that he would catch a glimpse of her cleavage, "Well, Mr. Kirk you know how to make a drink." She smiled a full white smile at him.

Mr. Kirk continued to ignore her as he made her drink. After he finished mixing it he put it in a martini glass and handed it to her, "Your drink ma'am."

Elizabeth gently took the drink as she subtly rubbed his hand, "Thank you kind sir. Now, is there anything I can do for you?"

Kirk looked at her, "A nice tip would be a start miss." He said as he cleaned a glass with a rag paying no attention to her.

Elizabeth cocked her eyebrows and left a tip on the bar with a piece of paper, "Call me sometime and I'll pay you back properly." She winked at him and left swinging her hips the whole way hoping to entice him further.

Kirk aka Michael sighed in aggravation as he felt relief about her leaving. She kept coming over and over to get his attention but he would never be interested in anyone like her.

'You seem to have a way with the ladies.' His CODEC echoed in his ears as he turned and saw Mei Ling with a sly smile on her face. Michael would admit that she looked dazzling in that dress but personal feelings and opinion needed to be set aside on missions.

'Only the ones that I have no interest in.' He sent back to her. Michael looked up and saw Sousuke.

He looked tired running all the different orders for the past hour. Still he was doing his job and was very effective in keeping to the role of a waiter. Michael has some experience in bartending in the past. The old bar he used to hang out with the SAS taught him how to make a lot of different drinks.

So far, at least fifty percent of the people had been identified as major players in many corporations along with those who served in political positions. This was looking to be a huge gathering of the elite.

'So far nothing about Silver or Kaname.' Sousuke said through the CODEC to Michael and the others.

'Keep it cool Sousuke. I bet you that he likes to be fashionably late to add dramatics to himself. Not that he really needs it considering how much of a girl he looks like.' Michael said with a smile.

He could hear the snickering from both Mao and Mei Ling as they continued to wait for that right person to approach them.

So far several older men approached each one but were dismissed considering they were lower ranked in importance.

'Hey cut the chatter.' They all heard through Snake, 'We have someone that we want. His name is Mr. Deckem.'

'The one who works for Rivermore Labs?' Mei Ling asked.

'Yea, he is in charge of VR testing and research at their labs. We want access to the information that he has in Amalgam.' Snake said ending the communication.

'All we need to do is catch his attention.' Sousuke said as he took yet another drink to yet another guest.

'Leave that to those two. Just concentrate on what we were assigned to brother.' Michael pointed out as he went to work making more drinks.

'Roger.' He said ending the communication and heading back to work as a waiter.

Mei Ling looked at Mao and whispered to her, "How should we do this Mao?"

"We don't have to do anything." She answered, "Because he has been looking at us for a while now."

Mei Ling looked over and blushed when he saw Deckem looking at them.

He merely nodded his head and continued to drink his wine. Deckem turned his attention back to whoever he was talking to without a second glance at the two young ladies.

Mei Ling was taken back by his response and looked at Mao, "Well what do we do?"

Mao smiled, "We wait for him to come to us and than go from there."

Mei Ling nodded nervously and walked over to Michael who was still busy bartending without a second glance. She opened a communication, 'So do you know the plan?'

Michael looked at her and put the glass he was cleaning down. He grabbed a bottle of

liquor and started to mix it together with something else, 'I know the plan Mei Ling but you need to keep your cool.'

'But-'

'Relax, Mao is an experienced agent. Just do your job and keep your cool.' Michael said as he handed a drink to a man who was waiting.

The man looked at Mei Ling with a look and was clearly undressing her with his eyes, "Miss, you are very appealing to the eyes." He said with a smile.

Mei Ling blushed and looked at him, "Maybe I am but that is your opinion."

Michael went back to his work as Sousuke came back, "I need two Crown drinks."

"Roger." Michael said pulling out a bottle.

"The lady and I will take one." The man at the bar said.

Mei Ling raised her hand, "I don't drink. I'm sorry."

"Oh c'mon, it's a party. Enjoy yourself." The man encouraged her as he put his hand on her shoulder.

Michael looked up sharply as he handed Sousuke the two drinks.

Mei Ling giggled, "Sorry but as smooth as you are with words Mr." She shook her head, "Your not my type."

She started to walk away but the man took a step forward.

"Mr. I would advise against that." Michael said sharply as he put ice in the drink.

"And why should I listen to a mere bartender?" the man answered back sharply wondering who this guy was to challenge him.

"Because you never know." Michael said as looked at the man. He handed him his drink with which the man took nervously,

The man said nothing but was very weary of what he said. Just by looking in his eyes, something did not feel right about him. It was as if he was being watched by a predator.

Mao walked up to the bar and whispered, "You do care about her."

Michael said nothing as he looked at Mao.

"She cares about you to, so why do you reject her affections."

Michael put the glasses down and looked at her, "I have my reasons Lt. Lets leave it at that."

Mao was about to speak when Sousuke came up, "The guy from Rivermore is making his move."

Mao looked over and saw the man talking with Mei Ling. It seemed to be small talk but now was the right time to move.

Mao sent a message to the TDD-1, 'Permission to start operation.'

Tessa responded with, 'Permission granted.'

Mao moved over with a small sway in her hips.

Michael merely shook his head as Sousuke came up and looked at him. He whispered quickly, "They started."

Sousuke nodded and looked over, "Something is happening."

They noticed a large crowd of people moving out of the way as if making way for them.

Michael rested his elbows on the table, "Wonder who is coming?"

Sousuke turned to him and said, "I'll check it out."

Michael nodded and went back to work making drinks. He looked over and saw Mei Ling and Mao talking with their target. The man was laughing and enjoying himself as Mei Ling and Mao continued their role as the attractive dates at the party. They had their target hook, line, and sinker.

'Michael.'He heard Sousuke communicate through the CODEC.

'Yo, is it them?'Michael asked hoping he was wrong.

'Affirmative, Kaname and Leonard have arrived.'Sousuke closed the channel.

"Shit." Michael muttered underneath his breath. The one thing he was hoping was that Sousuke was not going to let it affect him.

Michael looked up and saw a woman with green hair in the distance. He looked at it hard and thought for a second, "Can't be."

"Can't be what?"

Michael turned in front of him stood Kailin. He was frozen for a second as the shock started to set in. From what he read from the report Kailin went missing when he tried to hold off advancing troops from Amalgam. It was assumed that he was killed or captured but to be the traitor that comprised Mithril. This was big!

"Sorry, thought I saw an old girlfriend." Michael said quickly hoping to not attract attention, "What can I get you?"

"Vodka." Kailin said in his usually sharp and rough manner.

Michael pulled out the bottle and poured the man a shot. The man took it and drank it fast slamming the glass down. It took a lot of control to not grab him and kill him.

Kailin looked at him, "Do I know you?"

Michael quickly shook his head keeping his cool, "No and I get that a lot. A lot of women here have been saying the same thing." Michael said and added a wink for effect.

Kailin looked at him and left.

Michael waited till he was out of sight and exhaled a huge sigh of relief. He was lucky that he was wearing the mask. However, he doubted that Kailin would recognize him since they had not seen each other for years.

'SoKailin was the traitor in Mithril.'He heard Tessa speaking to him through the CODEC. Michael could only image the shock that came from everyone since he was trusted by a lot.

'Yea.'Michael said back bitterly.

Michael was having a hard enough time dealing with it. This was the man who saved his life after he left the OCELOT unit. The man begged the rebels to spare his life when they wanted to kill him without a second thought.

'Did the Lt. see that?'Michael asked.

'She saw him and said nothing except dead man. So far orders stand. We will deal with him later.'He heard Campbell in his ear, 'In the meantime, stick to your assignment.'

'Colonel does Sousuke know?' Michael did not want him to deal with two things like this. Sousuke and Michael both saw Kailin as a father figure. If he found out that Kailin was the traitor and with Leonard's arm around Kaname, there was no telling what would happen.

'He was the one who reported it.'Weber reported, 'He merely let him walk by and that was it. He seems to be worried about Kaname more than anything else.'

'Then we are going to have to talk about this later.'Michael handed another drink to a patron, 'What is his situation right now?'

Weber sighed, 'Leonard has his arm around her waist.'


To say that Sousuke was mad would be an understatement, he was beyond mad at what he was seeing right now. He was at that very moment calculating how much force he would need to rip Leonard's arm off and beat him with it.

For just a second, Sousuke was ready to snap the man's neck without a second thought. Granted the mission would fail but in the end it would have been worth it to send that man to hell.

Leonard strutted in with his arm around Kaname's waist like they were dating already. He came in with a slight smile that made him feel that he was on top of the world.

Sousuke turned his attention to Kaname as the two of them were greeted by dozens of people in the organization.

She wore a dazzling white dress and gloves that made her seem to radiate like she was an angel. However, if Sousuke knew Kaname as well as he did than she was just trying to keep up an appearance.

The full point of this was to show off what Leonard had in his possession. Sousuke knew that Kaname was forced into doing this. Most likely she was told that her friends and family would be killed if she failed to do what Leonard wanted.

Sousuke clenched his fists in frustrating thinking of what he would do to Leonard if he touched her with any dishonorable intentions.

"Are you a waiter?"

Sousuke's attention snapped back to a woman with a thick Russian accent and green hair.

She wore a black dress that showed off a good amount of her cleavage. Sousuke looked at her as a memory flashed back to him.

"Well are you?"

Sousuke shook his head, "Yes I am and-"

The woman raised her hand, "Never mind I-" She stopped and looked at him hard.

Sousuke looked at her worried if she knew that this was a disguise, "Uhh, is there something I can help you with?"

The woman put her hand on his face and studied him looking at his eyes. The woman looked at him and put her hand down, "You remind me of a little brother I had." With that she left.

Sousuke relaxed and watched her leave. That woman looked so familiar to him. Her voice and the hair stood out the most but what he was thinking could not be true. Wolf was killed in Libya.

"Excuse me."

Sousuke turned and in front of him stood Leonard with Kaname putting on a happy face look. She seemed to not be enjoying herself. Leonard looked at the disguised Sousuke with arrogance in his eyes.

It was the same look he gave Sousuke and Michael at the apartment after Ocelot declared his challenge. His voice when he left and his final words to the two still infuriated Sousuke.

This man thought of himself as superior!

"Excuse me are you hard of hearing or what?" Leonard asked arrogantly.

Kaname merely kept her mouth quiet.

"Sorry sir," He said curtly using every bit of control to not smash his fist into Leonard's nose, "What can I get you?"

"Two orders of wine please." Leonard said flashing a smile at Kaname who merely kept her stone face.

Sousuke was stunned, "Sir, are you of age?" Sousuke was sure that he was not. Enemy or not, he would not tolerate underage drinking on their part.

Leonard walked up to him, "That is not a question you should be asking if you want to keep your job." Leonard said trying to intimidate the man.

For once Sousuke was glad that he could keep his emotions under control, "Yes sir."

Sousuke left to get the order.

Leonard merely gave a low laugh, "Good help is so hard to find."

Kaname scoffed, "You act like a big man but you're just a child." She said and went to the bar following after the waiter.

Leonard stared in disbelief but let it go. She would come around and it was all a matter of time.

Sousuke pushed his way through the crowd to the bar. Right now he was hoping that he could get his emotions under control before things got out of hand.

The mere sight of Leonard parading Kaname around the way he did as he strutted in was enough to make him bite his lip so hard that he felt a little blood in his mouth.

Sousuke could almost feel the others calling him to tell him to keep his head cool but right now he just wanted to break something.

Or rather a certain someone.

He could see in the distance Michael working on a drink and he hoped that-

"Please wait for a second."

Sousuke turned and felt his heart tense as Kaname caught up to him.

Kaname took a deep breath and cleared her throat, "I'm sorry for how he acted to you. He tends to get so full of himself that he thinks he is invincible."

"There is no such thing as invincible miss." Sousuke said rather shortly. His hope was to end this conversation and get back to the table.

The more he was around her, the greater the chance that Leonard would notice and things would get ugly. That was not the only problem; she was closer than he wanted her to be which still made him sweat a little.

Kaname gave a low giggle, "I wish that were true but," She stopped herself. She thought back to Sousuke.

It was the way that he seemed to come out of anything without a scratch. He always came back to her no matter.

However, things had changed.

Sousuke looked at her and just wanted to tell her the truth. Still, he was a soldier and the mission came first.

Kaname shook her head in embarrassment, "I'm sorry if I seem a little ditzy to you." She said with a small smile.

Sousuke nodded and said, "It's not a problem."

"Yea well-" Kaname turned her head and looked at him wide eyed, "What did you say?"

She studied him closely.

The way he said it and his manner around her.

Everything was so familiar.

Sousuke tensed and quickly said, "It's not a big deal and if you'll excuse me," He pointed to Michael who was waving him down, "I need to get your drinks, excuse me miss."

Sousuke gently pushed past her and went to the bar.

"Wait-" Kaname tried to stop him but he was already gone. She huffed in annoyance and crossed her arms.

Wolf told her that he could be alive but that was a slim chance.

However, if the past taught her anything it was that even if his chances were slim as long as he had a chance, however small it was Sousuke would come through.

"Still holding onto the past?"

Kaname shivered as she felt a cold hand on her shoulder. She looked at the corner of her eye and saw Leonard looking at her, "What business is it of yours?" She started to walk away from him but he quickly blocked her path. She grew a little scared as his eyes pierced through her like a predator. For a second she felt as if a Jaguar was looking at her.

Never moving and always watching her.

"It becomes my business when you hold onto the past." He whispered in her ear, "He is dead."

Kaname gripped her fist and fought the tears back.

"When you let go of him you can open up new doors to so much more." He gently put his hand on her face.

Kaname tried to push him back but Leonard had a good grip on her face. Every time he spoke badly about Sousuke she wanted to hit him. She just could not do anything now.

Kaname had accepted his deal.

"The world can be yours." He leaned forward to kiss her.

"Your drinks sir." Sousuke appeared out of no where with perfect timing. Michael had already warned him to keep his cool about the whole thing.

"Thank you." Kaname quickly took her drink. For once she had something to be thankful about.

Leonard nodded curtly and took his drink from the waiter, "Don't you have other orders to attend to?" He said rudely hoping to get him out of his way.

Sousuke had the tray underneath his armpit. He was gripping and fighting the urge to smash it against Leonard's face. For just a moment he smiled at the thought but was able to hide it before anyone noticed.

"Now, now Mr. Silver I would advise you to not antagonize the staff working tonight." Behind them was a tall well built man with blond hair that covered his ears. The striking feature about him was his British accident.

"Mr. Gold, so you did come?" Leonard said. Oddly enough he sounded very nervous.


"What!?" Campbell looked at the transmission.

"Did we hear him right?" Otacon said taking his glasses off, "Okay we have a picture so give me some time." He got to work on the computer.

Snake looked at the image closely. He looked familiar somehow.

Mardukas looked at Mr. Gold, "I think I have seen this man before."

Everyone looked at him.

"I'm not sure, but if he is who I think he is than he should be dead." Mardukas gulped and continued to search his memory for this man's face.


"Why yes I did Mr. Silver, did you expect this party to be about you?" Mr. Gold taunted. He turned to Kaname, "Ms. Chidori a pleasure to meet you." He gently shook her hand.

"So you are the one to take me right?" Kaname crossed her arms as she challenged Gold.

Leonard and Sousuke both tensed on that sentence.

Mr Gold started to laugh, "You have fire Ms. Chidori, I admire that but," He looked at her and Kaname felt her blood freeze. Kaname for the first time was really afraid of him. Whoever, or better yet whatever, this man was he was extremely dangerous.

"I would advise you watch what you say in the future." With that Gold left to join the crowd.

Leonard dragged Kaname away to talk to her about something but Sousuke did not follow.

It took a second for Sousuke to get control of himself. He sensed a raw intent to kill that he had never seen before. It was nothing like what he felt from Ocelot or even Gauron.

It seemed to be pure menace coming out of Gold. Sousuke in a hurry went to the bar to get his head together and plan their next move.

From what he just felt Mr. Gold was indeed more dangerous than Gauron.

As soon as he got to the bar he opened a transmission to Michael and everyone, "Do we have an ID?"

"No we don't but Otacon is working on it as we speak. Mardukas thinks that he may have seen him before."Michael put the glass down and looked at Sousuke.

"Commander is this true?"Sousuke asked Mardukas.

Mardukas came on the channel, "It was in the Royal Navy. It was an SAS squad we were sending in for a mission. I never knew his name but his face stood out the most. He seemed calm and confident but at the same time posed to strike down anyone."

Sousuke put the tray down as he observed Kaname and Leonard going back into the crowd of people, "What was the mission sir?"

"It was a mission during the Gulf War. Their mission was to mark scud launchers for ships to launch cruise missiles at. We lost contact with the team after the nuclear missile was fired. After we lost contact with the team we assumed that they were dead. Now, it appears at least one of them survived."Mardukas finished his story. Even after all these years that man's face still stood out the most.

"I want you two to stay as low as you can and keep away from the crowds. Only go near the guests to keep up appearances."Snake said getting there attention, "Sousuke that means you understood?"

"Affirmative."Sousuke said and with that the transmission closed.

Michael took a deep breath and leaned over the counter, "So in front of us are the world's elite. In front or us are the biggest movers and shakers in terms of economic power and political influence."

Sousuke leaned against the counter. Most of the people were satisfied with their drinks and preceded to enjoy themselves, "Do you think it is countries or corporations that get the most out of war?"

Michael raised his eyebrow at Sousuke, "You know the answer to that."

Sousuke sighed sadly, "Yea I do."

All his experiences told him that no matter what country was at war both would suffer from its effects. Whereas companies that sold weapons to those countries grew fat and happy as long as the war continued and they needed weapons.

Private industry did not need to support the right person in any war, they would benefit either way. They also had the possibility of sharing in the spoils of war if they did happen to back the right country.

Sousuke remembered being in some of the jungles in Africa in which rebels and the government fought ferociously over the diamond mine fields. It was brutal and at times horrible how they fought each other over just a few mines.

Only after leaving did Sousuke know that companies, particularly those in the diamond industry, supported both sides.

It made him sick at how just a few people could control so much. They did not care about lives. Those people only cared about profits and the spoils that they could win from supporting the right side.

"Pawns," Sousuke said sadly, "We are nothing but pawns on a board."

Michael handed him a glass of water which he took, "Yea, all we are good for is just following orders without question."

Sousuke tapped Michael's glass and drank it. He finished it in one gulp, "How are the others doing?"

Michael smiled and started to make a drink for another patron who just came up. He was uninterested in what they were talking about, "They left a little while ago."


Richard Deckem was on top of his world right now.

He was head of a very advanced project which would earn him more money.

He was part of an organization which promised him a great position once the project was finished.

And at that very moment he had two lovely girls around each arm and was showing him his new office in Armstech.

The office was on the 37th floor of the building and had a great view of the city of Paris. Needless to say he hoped that it would help give a more arousing scene.

Richard hadn't even bothered to get their names, but both girls had caught his eye. Both girls had at least a little Asian heritage. The one with the long black hair was Chinese. She was a little shorter than the other one but that did not matter to him. The other one had some sort of Asian background judging by her skin but spoke with a slight accent similar to an American one. The thing that drew the most attention was her purple eyes.

"This is my office," Richard said with a slight bragging tone, "Hope you enjoy the view." He smile and closed the door behind them.

The short one gawked at it, "Wow it is such a nice view. This is your office?"

Richard nodded, "Yes it is, I do a lot of work for both Rivermore and Armstech. So naturally I would have an office in both corporations."

The tall woman moved behind him, "So you most be very important to have this big of an office?" She inquired.

The short one sat cross legged showing off her legs while the tall one leaned against the desk next to her.

Richard smiled and looked at them, "I do a lot of important work for both organizations."

He started to approach them, "Especially now."

"What do you mean?" The short one got off the table and approached him getting really close to him.

Richard smiled more as he put his arm around her waist, "Let's just say that this party is all about the future. If you play your cards right than you can be part of it."

The tall one wrapped her arm around her shoulders and rested her head on his shoulder, "So you're pretty important," She whispered in his ear blowing into it slowly, "But we don't like guys who pretend."

Richard merely chuckled as the short one leaned against him. Life was good and now to close the deal, "I'm not pretending, I happen to play a role in Project R."

The short one kissed his lips slowly to get his attention, "Project R, what is that?"

Richard shook his head, "Sorry can't tell you but it is pretty important." His hand moved down to rest on the girls behind and he rubbed it gently. The shorter one did get his interest.

"Ah c'mon it helps us know you are important." The tall one moved her hands down to his belt buckle.

Richard felt his stomach do a flip when that happened, "The only thing I know is that our group is investing a great deal of time into it. That is why Armstech is part of the organization."

The tall one smiled and whispered, "Thank you." In one fluid motion her hands moved up into a choke hold and slammed him against the wall, "Thanks for the help asshole."

Richard was completely thrown off balance, his day had just gotten a lot worse. Once he realized what was going on he started freaking out. "What is going on!? Who are you!?"

"Shut up asshole!" The tall one was stronger than he could have ever imagined. He felt one of her hands grab his arm and twist it behind him. She still had a strong choke hold around his neck.

He was slammed on his desk as his arm was twisted more, "Who are you!?" He cried out frantically. He was upset that he told the security teams to shut down the cameras for his room for an hour. What else would anyone do with two young girls in an office?

The tall one took her wig off, "Mithril."

The short one redid her hair with two chopsticks so that it was sticking up, "FOXHOUND."

Richard paled, "It can't be! We destroyed you! We-" He cried out as his arm was twisted around.

"If we were destroyed you wouldn't be in this situation right now asshole!" The tall one yelled at him.

The short one pulled out another pair of chopsticks. Richard was confused by this, but not overly worried about it. She pushed something at the bottom and a sharp blade came out. Richard paled.

The tall one slammed him on the table, "What is Project R?!"

"I don't know!" Richard yelled out.

The tall one twisted his arm, "Keep quiet or I break it and than move on to the other one."

Richard whimpered in agreement.

The tall one said in a sweet tone "I'll ask again," She paused and yelled out "What is Project R!?"

"I don't know," He felt the slight twist, "Wait! Wait, wait please!" He cried out.

The tall one stopped and looked at him with a cold look.

"All I know is that has something to do with testing AS suits and what they could do under extreme changes in temperature as well as environment. That is all we were told to do. Once it was complete they would give me the next requirements." Richard said trying to hold back the pain.

"Requirements?" The short one held the deadly chopstick in her hand, "Do you mean they give you one thing than the other?"

Richard nodded his head frantically, "Yes! Each group has there own projects and only the inner circle of the group know the full details. It is like working on a jigsaw puzzle. Each of us is given our own part of the puzzle and we work on that part and that is it."

They both looked satisfied.

The short one looked at him, "One more thing we need." She pointed to his computer,

"Access to your private files and anything relating to this Project R."

Richard shook his head frantically, "No I can't do that. They will kill me!"

The tall one twisted his arm almost breaking it, "And what makes you think we won't!!"

Richard was going crazy at this point, "No, no you don't understand they will kill me.

Please you have to-"He stopped to scream out as the tall one twisted it more.

She was at the point of breaking his arm.

"Wait, wait hold on we can do this another way." The short one said smiling.

The tall one smiled as she let go of the choke hold and grabbed his free hand and slammed it palm down on the floor, "Do the pleasure."

Richard looked at him and than back at her, "Wait, what you are doing!?"

"Tell us or this goes through your hand." She grabbed his wrist and held it tight making sure his hand could not move. In her other hand was the chopstick with the blade down.

"No, no please!" He pleaded. He was hoping for mercy at this point. Maybe he could cut a deal with them.

"Then what are the codes!?" The short one demanded with her patience running short.

"Make a deal and-" He did not finish the sentence as the blade went through the center of his hand.

The tall one covered his mouth the stop him from screaming.

The short one pulled the knife out and looked at him, "Next time I cut a finger than move onwards." She held the hand out flat, "What are the passwords!?"

Richard pleaded, "Okay just give me a piece of paper and I'll give them to you."

The short one pulled out a piece of paper and pen. Richards got to work giving them the codes.

"Okay I gave them to you so-" He did not finished as the choke hold got tighter.

The tall one whispered, "If you die, just be glad it wasn't from us. We lost a lot because of you!" She lifted him up as he gagged out and whispered dangerously, "So consider this karma."

He passed out on the table.

Mao threw him to the floor as Mei Ling got on the computer, "How long will this take?"

Mei Ling smiled, "Not long. I may not be good at fighting but computers are what I excel at." She said proudly.

Mao looked at the unconscious body of Richard, "You had some good moves there, at least from what I could see."

Mei Ling was silent as she went to work on opening a hole for Otacon to get into the database.

"Seem's like you had practice with a certain someone."

"Got it!" She said proudly.

Mao smiled, "So you do practice with Michael. I can tell with the moves you put on him. That kiss really sealed the deal."

Mei Ling turned to her confused, "What are you talking about? I just found an easier way to give them access."

Mao felt stupid, "Oh."

Mei Ling shook her head, "Just monitor what they are talking about in the conference room so we can move on."


The party was still going on despite the disappearance of the Rivermore representative.

Sousuke and Michael stayed close to the bar keeping a respectful distance from the growing crowd of people.

A transmission came in through the CODEC.

It was Snake.

"So far so good boys, Otacon just broke into there databases and is downloading all their sensitive files."

Sousuke was confused for a moment, "Otacon?"

"Oh that is me,"Sousuke heard a nervous voice come on, "My name is Dr. Hal Emmerich or Otacon as I like to be called."

"Otacon, that is an unusual codename."Sousuke pointed out.

Otacon laughed, "I got it since I am an anime lover or Otaku as I am called."

Sousuke smiled at that, "Otaku seems to be a popular word."

Campbell took over, "Dr. Emmerich is our best hacker and is the head of our computer division. There is nothing that he cannot break into."

"Where do we stand on the downloading Colonel?"Michael asked.

"We just start to download a moment ago. We have at least ten percent of their files."Otacon answered.

"What about the two Lt.'s?"Sousuke asked.

Snake smirked, "Smooth as silk. The guy never saw it coming."

"In the meantime,"Tessa spoke, "Ride out the rest of the party the way you are right now. Once done meet them at point bravo in the city."

"Point bravo, got it."They both said and the transmission was cut.

Sousuke went behind the bar and sighed a little.

Michael took another drink of water, "What is bothering you?"

Sousuke could see Kaname in the distance with Leonard, "Nothing."

Michael shook his head, "You're a bad liar man. Stick to the truth, your good at that."

"Do you think we could get her out?"

Michael put his glass down and looked at him and whispered, "If we tried to get her out and if she decided to come with us willingly there could be no guarantee that her family and friends would be okay. We talked about this before, if you keep thinking about that then we will have problems."

Sousuke took another drink of water and returned his attention to the party, "What is going?"

Michael looked up curious by what Sousuke said, "I don't know but Mr. Gold is taking the floor."

In the distance Mr. Gold was on a small platform and started what was apparently a planned speech, "Thank you all for coming here tonight. Indeed it is a good time for all of us to gather together."

Everyone clapped and gave cheers of encouragement.

"Thank you," Mr. Gold quieted them down, "However, the biggest accomplishment is the elimination of our adversaries. Mithril and FOXHOUND are either destroyed or crippled to where they cannot do anything!"

Everyone cheered at the statement. They were under the impression, with supporting evidence that there was nothing to worry about from either Mithril or FOXHOUND.

Michael and Sousuke smirked wondering how many people would have had a heart attack if they found out that they were alive and operating inside this very party.

"Now that we have taken care of that small problem we can move on," Mr. Gold invited up an old man using a cane, "We want to welcome the President of Armstech Mr. President Robert Baker into our organization."

Everyone clapped as the old man waved his hand and shook Mr. Gold's hand, "Thank you all for this superb opportunity to join this organization. Together we have the opportunity to change the world."

Mr. Gold took the floor, "Mr. Baker is right. The world is shifted and divided right now. Countries are divided by the two major super powers. But who gives those super powers the weapons to fight each other? We do!"

Everyone cheered as if in a church choir.

"Once our project is complete with the help of Ms. Chidori," He pointed to Kaname who gave a meek wave, "And her special talents we will destroy those powers, and from the debris we will reinvent the entire world structure. The world will be one just as he had envisioned!"

Everyone clapped and cheered at the end.

Sousuke and Michael looked at each other confused by what they heard, "Make the world one?"

Sousuke looked at him not sure what he just heard, "Amalgam's objective is to unite the world under one ruler?"

"What do they have in their minds that could change the world that fast and what system could do that?" Michael inquired.

Sousuke was about to talk but Silver stood on the stage, "What does Silver want to say?"

Michael gave a low laugh, "Maybe to admit that he shops in the girl's store?"

Sousuke smiled a little, "We can only hope so."

"Would my date," Leonard said unaware that Sousuke's eyebrow twitched at the mere mention of that, "Ms. Kaname Chidori please come up?"

Kaname went onto the stage reluctantly. She bit her lower lip slightly thankful that Sousuke and no one that she knew was present to hear what was about to be heard.

It was the ultimate betrayal in her eyes.

Leonard graciously wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her close, "With nothing holding my dear Kaname back," He smiled at her and kissed her on the cheek, "She has accepted my deal."

Michael put his hand on Sousuke's shoulder, "Easy buddy, easy. Don't make me hurt you." He said in a soft tone. The only thing that made Michael feel a little better was that Sousuke could not reach the missile launchers in the bar.

Otherwise, there would be tons of people splattered all over the wall.

Sousuke was digging his nails into his fist and doing everything he could to keep his cool. It was bad enough that he was parading Kaname around like a trophy wife but to kiss her to.

Even Sousuke had his limits in patience. He felt something tap him on his shoulder and it was Michael handing him a glass of water.

"Drink this and keep cool." He whispered quickly. The last thing he really needed was for Sousuke to flip out.

"She has accepted to work in our Research Division and with her special help," he smiled at her and but she could only muster up a half-assed smile in return, "She has improved the designs of the Venoms and even the Behemoths."

Michael and Sousuke looked at each other with worried looks on their faces. They could only hope that they had that data downloaded already.

"Guys, data collection is at forty-five percent."They both heard Otacon report quickly.

"So far so good." Michael drank a bit of his water and so did Sousuke.

"Not only that," Leonard smiled and pulled out a ring and slipped it on her left hand, "She has accepted my proposal and is now my fiancé."

It was lucky that everyone was cheering and congratulating them so no one heard what was going on at the bar.

Michael and Sousuke both spat out there water in a stream over the bar and yelled, "WHAT!"


At the sub it was a loud "WHAT!"

Campbell rubbed his temples, "This is going to be bad."

Tessa slapped her forehead, "Tell me about. There is no way this is going to end nicely"

Weber's head hit the control panel, "Die hard is going to go crazy about this." His only hope was that Michael could keep Sousuke from doing something stupid. Weber thought for a moment and consider who his brother was and sighed hopelessly. Something stupid was about to happen.


On the 37th floor Mao yelled, "THAT LITTLE PRICK IS DEAD!!!"

Mei Ling sighed, "Things are going to get crazy." She turned her attention back to the computer hoping that nothing was going to happen.

However, if what she heard about the two brothers and their war path it would only lead to one thing.

It would result in property damage. Lots and lots of property damage.


Kaname gave a small wave and felt guilty at what she was doing. She only accepted his offer because there seemed to be no real way out.

If she accepted the deal than her family and friends would be safe from Amalgam. They even promised to get them out of harms way if any thing should happen in the near future.

With Sousuke gone and Michael missing she really had no choice in the matter.

The disguised Sousuke slammed his glass down on the bar, "He is dead."

Michael snapped out of it and grabbed him, "No we can't-"

Sousuke shook the arm off. He looked like the armies of hell were behind him and nothing would stop him from taking out anyone or anything that got in his way.

All but one.

Michael grabbed his arm and pulled him back behind the bar, "You're not going anywhere."

Sousuke shook the arm and pushed Michael.

Michael looked at him and pushed him back, "Don't tempt me."

Sousuke looked at him and started to walk past him.

"Sousuke listen-" Michael said as he was pushed against the wall by Sousuke.

Michael looked at him and said, "That's it!" He grabbed Sousuke and pulled him behind the bar.

Two girls were approaching the bar when they heard grunting.

They heard sounds like fist colliding and wrestling around the floor.

"Don't try and stop me!" they heard from behind the bar as it shook violently, almost as if something had hit it rather hard.

"Oh like back in India!" More fighting was heard and something like a chokehold was being applied by the sound of it.

They took a step forward and heard a voice as if someone was being strangled, "It was your fault for charging!"

They heard a sound of surprise as if someone was hit and shaken off and than more fighting was heard.

They then heard someone gritting as if someone was having their arms pulled off, "If you had not been reckless and said that we could have taken them!"

The two girls looked over and giggled a little, "What are you two doing?"

The scene was a little comical with the two men fighting each other behind the bar. They were hoping that no one would hear them. Sousuke was on top of Michael about to punch him while holding onto his collar. Michael had a finger in Sousuke's mouth as if he was trying to push his face back while in turn trying to punch him.

They both looked at each and tried to say as clearly as they could, "Tip. We are fighting over a tip."

"Well we could use some help." One of them said.

They quickly got up and straighten their clothes and made some drinks and left.

Snake came online, "What the hell are you two idiots doing!?"

Neither would answer.

"Sousuke keep it under control or you will deal with me. Michael the same goes with you!"

No one said a thing until, "Excuse Mr. Gold needs a drink. A crown on the rocks." A woman said before leaving.


Leonard could not be happier with what had occurred. The ring was around her finger and for all intents and purposes he had beaten Sousuke once and for all. The only thing that could stop him was Michael but he would be taken care of in time.

They walked off the stage with Leonard reaching for Kaname's hand but she shook it away.

"Now, now honey we should be the happy couple." He said sweetly in her ear.

Kaname felt sick every time he called her that, "I will never love you!" She said defiantly.

"I would think about that very carefully my dear. You accepted my offer and I am a patient man." He looked at her, "No one is coming to save you like in some story book."

Kaname wanted to yell but every time she fought him. Leonard only seemed to be drawn closer to her. But she said nothing it was a win for him.

It was the ultimate catch-22.

Mr. Gold approached them, "So you two have decided to tie the knot, Silver. No doubt forced her." He laughed as well as everyone else within hearing range.

Leonard tried to laugh it off, "Well, sir with all do respect-"

"You really are a fool Silver."

Leonard was silent at that. He hated being called a fool but if he tried anything against Mr. Gold than he would kill Leonard with his own hands.

After all, he would not be the head of Amalgam if all he could do was organize.

"You made this arrangement just after the reported death of Sousuke Sagara. Am I correct?" Mr. Gold inquired.

Michael and Sousuke were still at the bar as Michael handed Sousuke the drink. They could not hear anything that was going on, "Wonder what is going on?"

"Congratulating the 'happy couple." Sousuke said bitterly.

Michael hit his arm, "Cool it Sousuke." He whispered to him, "We may have found where Leonard is hiding."

Sousuke took the drink and headed toward the tight crowd.

Mr. Gold had formed a circle in the center as he challenged Leonard, "You seem to assume a lot of things. I know that you made these assumptions after those pictures were sent to us. I still recall Raven warning you about those two."

Leonard laughed a little, "Mr. Gold with all due respect, the predications he made are less than credible."

Mr. Gold looked at him, "True but I would feel more comfortable if we had the body."

Kaname turned away thinking about that.

Mr. Gold noticed that and continued walking around, "What if I were to tell you that Sousuke is alive?"

Leonard's face paled more than usual and his eyes widened.

Kaname looked at him awed and said, "Alive?"

"Yes, and Silver I warned you about them after the operation was complete." He walked up to the slightly frazzled man, "If you want to kill them, kill them both at the same time. As long as the other is alive, they will keep coming."

Leonard regained his composure, "Sir I-"

Mr. Gold silenced him and saw the waiter come with his drink, "Thank you young man," He took it and drank a small bit of it, "By the way I heard that you two had a nasty spat at the bar and it was about a tip."

Sousuke nodded and followed with the story they had worked out, "Yes, we both worked hard he wanted more of the tips."

Mr. Gold drank some more, "And you said no since you are running the orders back and forth. From what I can gather you work hard and with the precision of a specialist."

Kaname looked at Gold than back at the man who she saw earlier.

"I just do my job."

"A man who is honest I like that," He smiled and finished his drink, "You are an honest man." In a flash Gold smashed the glass cup across Sousuke's face.

Sousuke never saw it coming but only knew that something hit him than he landed on the ground touching his face.

There was a collective gasp and a small scream which attracted Michael's attention. He opened the CODEC to Sousuke, "Sousuke what is happening!?"

No answer.

He changed the channel to the Colonel, "Sir what is going on!?"

"Not sure but we are opening the channel so you can hear the whole thing. Michael keep your finger off the trigger!"Campbell closed the channel.

Michael eased his finger off the trigger and went to work making Molotov cocktails pretending everything was normal in case something happened, then he could take them by surprise.

Before Sousuke could register what happened he was pulled up and slammed on the table with his arm being twisted.

Mr. Gold was holding him tight and held him in front of Leonard and Kaname. He whispered, "Did you think I would not know you would come? You did come Sousuke Sagara!"

Sousuke tried to stand up but Gold was a lot stronger than he could imagine. He was just as strong as Snake.

"Watch closely my young friends," Gold grabbed the mask and tried to find a way to pull it off and found it, "If you hid behind masks," It started to come off, "You lose who you are. Your identity changes and you start to hate yourself." The mask came off clean and Gold threw it at Leonard's feet, "Admit what you are."

Everyone was silent as the mask hit the ground.

Mr. Gold smiled as he showed the now unmasked Sousuke, "Mr. Silver and Ms. Chidori does this man look familiar?" Mr. Gold lifted Sousuke up and slammed him on the table. Sousuke was looking right at Kaname and she could get a good look at him.

Kaname looked at him and covered her mouth. Shock, relief, joy were all mixed on her face as she stuttered out, "S-s-s-ou-su-ke?"

Leonard could not believe it! He was alive and that meant, "Everyone move away!" he yelled, "Now!!" and everyone cleared out of the way and he got a look at the bar.

Michael was in the middle of making another cocktail as everyone looked at him. He slowly put the bottle away and looked at them.

"Yes, I had monitored them even after the operation you set in motion to kill him Mr. Silver." Gold looked at him very upset at him, "It would appear that these foxes seemed to elude your best efforts."

Leonard was still silent as the sweat bullets poured down his back and face. The normally composed man was at a loss for words.

Someone approached Mr. Gold, "Mr. Gold does this mean that-"

Mr. Gold smiled as he twisted Sousuke's arm, "Why it means that Mithril and FOXHOUND are still alive." He said coolly.

That mere comment was enough to send everyone in a panic. People started to try to leave and others were talking with each other to find the safest place they could.

Mr. Gold turned to Leonard and could only smile at his slight panic attack, "Well," He looked at him, "What do you have to say?"

Leonard felt nervous but kept cool, "Mr. Gold I thought that-"

"I did recommend Mr. K to kill him but I wanted to see if you would do anything to support that. However," He sighed in an exaggerated way, "Ocelot had to do all the work and you failed. You were too busy trying to romance a girl that hates your guts!"

Leonard tried to control the situation, "Mr. Gold I-"

Gold looked at him and Leonard backed off. He then looked at Michael, "Mr. Kanzuki why not remove the mask so that we can stop playing."

Michael sighed and reluctantly pulled the mask off. The element of surprise was not lost but he would need something to get the missiles attention. The last thing he needed was Sousuke in a body bag when the fireworks went off.

"Good now then, I take it FOXHOUND and Mithril are listening but I have to ask, is Snake listening to me? Is he?"

They were silent.

Gold twisted Sousuke's arm, "Answer or I break it!"

"Yes." Michael said.

Gold looked happy, "Good, good then that makes things better for everyone." He smirked, "Arastols override order G-21."

Suddenly the massive robots entered through the doors surrounding the crowd, "At your command Mr. Gold."

Leonard was mad, "Mr. Gold! These are my creations and I-"

Gold pulled out a gun and fired at him however it was just a warning shot, it still went through his hair though, "Mr. Silver, I gave you money and facilities to make these things. In way, they are mine!" He then pointed the gun at Sousuke, "Mr. Kanzuki, Mr. Sagara I have to say that it has been a pleasure meeting you. You two have surpassed my expectations and surprised me even more than you know. You are indeed worthy of a status similar to both Gray Fox and Solid Snake." He twisted the gun he had pointed at Sousuke forward causing him to wince, "Mr. Sagara could have very well been called the next Big Boss."

"Sousuke!" Kaname cried out. It was the first time she had seen him since she thought he was dead and she wanted to tell him so much but she didn't know what she could do.

"Mr. Gold," Michael had his hands underneath the counter, "Before we continue may I ask you a random question to at least lighten the mood. The crowd looks like they are going to wet themselves."

"Michael you were wrong, people did not start having heart attacks!" Sousuke joked referring to his brother's early comment.

Gold twisted his arm silencing him, "What would the question be?"

He smiled and Sousuke smiled as well catching on, "Who is your favorite James Bond character?"

Gold was not expecting that, "Why Goldfinger of course." Everyone laughed at the name,

"And yours?"

He smiled and flipped the switch. The secret compartments opened and the missile heads stuck out, "Why Q of course."

Everyone started to panic and scream as the missiles were fired. The robots were targeted and destroyed in the first wave. The others went wild destroying the ceiling and walls causing a huge panic.

Sousuke took the opportunity to slam his free elbow in Gold's face bringing about his release, "Kaname!" He looked up and she was gone.

"SOUSUKE!"

He turned and saw Michael throwing a cocktail at some guards running towards them,

"Let's go!" He pushed the other button and the weapons came out.

Sousuke ran to the bar and Michael threw him a HKMP5 along with a bag of ammo.

"Behind you!" Michael sprayed behind him taking out two enemies.

"Your left!" Sousuke returned the favor holding off more advancing guards.

Michael reached into the bag and pulled out one of the remote charges that Hermit gave them and slammed it on the bottles. He grabbed the shotguns and threw one to Sousuke and stuffed it in his bag. Michael did the same, "Head for that exit!" He pointed to one behind them.

"Roger!" Sousuke braced the rifle and released a semi-automatic fire burst at the advancing enemy.

Michael pulled his pistol out, "GO!" He shot at the fire sprinklers above them and a waterfall came down on the people confusing them for a moment.

Michael grabbed his bag and followed Sousuke to the door.

Sousuke kicked it opened and rushed in.

Michael fired a few more times before following closely behind him.

"WHAT ARE YOU FOOLS DOING!? KILL THEM!!" Leonard yelled. He would not let them get away with this humiliation. Not now. Not ever!

The guards rushed and-

A huge explosion went off at the bar causing more confusion.

Leonard turned toward the door and the guards-

Another explosion at the exit where the two brothers escaped. They were thrown back and the others rushed to see who was okay.

Leonard turned and was met with Gold's hand around his throat tightening with every breath he took and lifting him up off the ground.

"I don't like a job being half finished Silver," He said kindly and let him go, "Get it done!"

Leonard coughed and left the room. He had his robots with him, "Plan B-211" He said.

"Roger, search and detain." The robots left and were in quick pursuit of their targets.

Kaname was able to get away from Silver and catch her breath.

Despite the fact that a missile almost hit her.

Despite the fact that she was almost shot and trampled.

She had been better.

Kaname for the first time felt relief after seeing Sousuke and Michael, "He's alive." She said wiping the tears away.

"He's alive." She cried a little more.

He is alive and he lied.

That thought set things off.

He was alive and played dead.

Michael played along with it and did nothing!

She had to go through all of Leonard's bragging that he had won when he was alive! Kaname started to get mad as she tightened her fist and gritted her teeth. Anyone approaching her would be wise to not talk to her since she was about to kill the first thing that bothered her.

Not only that, where was he when she had to deal with all of Leonard's strutting, advances and now she was engaged to him!!!

That was the straw that broke the camels back and Sousuke would have a broken back when she got done with him! The same went for Michael.

Kaname froze for a second and thought of Wolf.

Now she was even madder.

Those two little perverts saw a teenage girl naked! Twice!!

"Those two are," She smashed her hand through the wall without a problem leaving a rather large hole and scaring everyone near her, "DEAD!! SOUSUKE SAGARA AND MICAHEL KANZUKI YOU ARE DEAD MEN!!!!" She yelled through the building.


Sousuke and Michael stopped and shuddered uncontrollably.

They both looked at each other.

"Ever have that feeling that someone just walked over our graves?" He said nervously.

Sousuke gulped, "She's mad." He paled and started to sweat.

Michael nodded, "Let's hope those guards find us first."

Sousuke agreed with him, "Affirmative. At least then we will have a quick death."


This was a chapter I had fun writing. I wanted to poke fun at Sousuke wondering how he would react if he saw this. I must say that I got a laugh or two with this chapter. However, with Kaname after them now, things could get really painful. Enjoy and review. It helps me to stay motivated when people love reading this and where the story goes. Also, congrads to Whatevr who won my challenge. See you next time!